YAVATMAL — A 24-year-old school dropout, who aspired to build a helicopter himself, died after one of the rotor blades of the chopper he was testing, broke and slashed his throat at Fulsawangi village in Mahagaon tehsil of the district on Tuesday night. The deceased Sheikh Ismail Sheikh Ibrahim had stopped going to school while […]
NEW DELHI — A Delhi court on Wednesday granted bail to former BJP spokesperson Ashwini Upadhyay, who was arrested in connection with anti-Muslim slogans allegedly raised during a protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar. Metropolitan Magistrate Udbhav Kumar Jain granted relief to Upadhyay, who is an advocate, on a bond of Rs 50,000. The accused was […]
NEW DELHI — A Jaipur family court has granted divorce to IAS couple Tina Dabi and her husband Athar Amir Khan. Family court No. 1 in Jaipur granted the divorce under Section 28 of the Special Marriage Act after deciding on their petition filed in November last year on mutual consent. The 2016-batch IAS toppers got married […]
NEW DELHI — Amid the ongoing Taliban offensive in Afghanistan, India has asked its nationals to leave from places in and around Mazar-e-Sharif in Balkh province. Indian Consulate General on Tuesday said that it has arranged a special flight from Mazar-e-Sharif to New Delhi which will depart on Tuesday evening. “A special flight is leaving from […]
NEW DELHI — The All India Lawyers’ Association for Justice (AILAJ) has written to the Supreme Court of India, asking for a suo moto public interest litigation to be filed in light of the inflammatory, anti-Muslim slogans raised at Jantar Mantar on Sunday. The slogans raised, the AILAJ says, amount to an “open call for […]
NEW DELHI — The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed that political parties must publish the criminal antecedents, if any, of their candidates within 48 hours of their selection, modifying the direction in its February 2020 judgment in the same. Looking to decriminalise politics, the Supreme Court in paragraph 4.4 of the February 2020 judgment had […]
NEW DELHI — Five men including supreme court lawyer and former Delhi BJP spokesperson Ashwini Upadhyay have been detained by the Delhi Police for their alleged role in raising inflammatory and anti-Muslim slogans at Jantar Mantar on Sunday. Apart from Upadhyay, a senior police officer said, the detained men have been identified as Deepak Singh Hindu, […]
MUMBAI — Two petitions filed in the Bombay High Court challenging provisions of the Information Technology (IT) Rules, 2021, on Monday contended that the rules were “vague” and “draconian”. The petitioners, digital news portal The Leaflet and journalist Nikhil Wagle, told the HC that the IT Rules will have a “chilling effect” on the freedom […]
NEW DELHI — A video showing anti-Muslim slogans being raised during a protest at Jantar Mantar here is being widely circulated on social media, following which the Delhi Police registered a case in connection with the matter on Monday, officials said. Hundreds of people had attended the protest organised by Bharat Jodo Aandolan at Jantar […]
NEW DELHI — The hazards of not reopening schools after prolonged closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic are “too serious to be ignored”, according to a parliamentary panel. The committee has noted that the closure of schools has not only impacted social fabric of families in a negative manner, it has also increased involvement of […]